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I’m thinking of dropping IntelliTXT from MacMegasite, since I find it really annoying and I’m sure most of my readers do as well. However it pays very well - about $30-$50/month, which pays for my web hosting.

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Coding Horror: Sins of Software Security
Here’s a brief summary of each of the 19 sins, along with a count of the number of vulnerabilities in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database for each one.
(tags: security programming books)

1900 Predictions
The Ladies Home Journal from December 1900, which contained a fascinating article by John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. “What [...]

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I decided to get rid of freeform tagging at MacMegasite because it was becoming too unmanageable. Since members can create their own tags by simply entering names, there were many duplicate tags with misspellings and lots of unique tags that were only assigned to a single post.
Drupal lists all taxonomy terms from different vocabularies together, [...]

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PC World - The 20 Most Annoying Tech Products
It’s one of the unwritten laws of computing: All versions of Windows are annoying. Vista wins a prize in part because of its overzealous “Cancel or Continue?” confirmation windows.
(tags: windows annoyances)

Health experts disagree on Wii benefits & dangers
Really interesting article in The Times on whether Wii is [...]

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Official Google Mac Blog: Google data APIs connect Cocoa developers to Google
Cocoa Framework to interact with Google Calendar, Google Base, Blogger, and other Google applications
(tags: cocoa google programming objective-c)

Code Beach: Index
a central repository where Mac developers can share pieces of useful code (like custom controls, formatters, categories)
(tags: osx programming)

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Game consoles are evil by ZDNet’s John Carroll — Richard Stallman is the godfather of the Free Software Movement. He is also maddeningly hard core in his beliefs, to the point where I wonder if he would allow doctors to work on him if the machines they were using run anything but open source [...]

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Participate: Invest your money and your time in OLPC project
The One Laptop per Child Foundation is supported by individuals, businesses and foundations.
(tags: laptop olpc)

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Slashdot: ‘It seems that the most recent DVDs released by Sony — specifically Stranger Than Fiction, Casino Royale, and The Pursuit of Happyness — have some kind of ‘feature’ that makes them unplayable on many DVD players. This doesn’t appear to be covered by the major media yet, but this link to a discussion over [...]

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castcluster - Google Code
CastCluster creates locally accessible RSS feeds of YouTube videos, Google Video, local directories and RSS/Atom feeds with enclosures (podcasts).

(tags: podcast rss tools video)

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Although I’m disappointed about Leopard being

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I’ve uploaded Michael Sliczniak’s modified version of Mii Transfer with the Mii Send feature, although I haven’t been able to verify that it works on my system. I haven’t had a chance to work on it for the last two weeks, so instead of continuing to sit on it I’ve decided to make it available [...]

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CARS: “Just days after Apple’s announcement that it had sold 100 million iPods, Microsoft’s Zune celebrated a milestone of its own. According to a press release issued by the company today, its 100th Zune was sold to 13-year-old Dieter Ebersbacher in Shreveport, Illinois, and is a sign of its success in the marketplace.
‘The sale of [...]

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LiveCD released with OLPC’s Sugar OS - Download Squad
Some folks over at Digg have posted several links to LiveCDs that will let you run the Sugar operating system on a PC.
(tags: freeware linux opensource olpc)

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I need to run several Windows applications for work (Outlook, Visual Studio Team Server, and a custom database application), so I’ve been using Parallels Desktop since the first beta. Their Windows support is excellent and the new Coherence feature makes the experience of running Windows on a Mac almost seamless. However, I also need to [...]

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Mark Shuttleworth gives several reasons why DRM is ineffective. All DRM depends on some kind of encryption, and all encryption will be cracked eventually. All it takes is *one* copy to be broken and it’s all over. They’re only hurting legitimate users who want to watch the movie they bought on their iPod, PSP, [...]

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Note to content owners: DRM doesn’t work
There are some ideas that are broken, but attractive enough to some people that they are doomed to be tried again and again. DRM is one of them.
(tags: drm technology)

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Connection Kit
Expand your applications publishing capabilities by integrating the Open Source Connection Framework
(tags: cocoa development programming osx)

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Coding Horror shares my dislike of SEOs. There’s something just plain sleazy about them. I’ve been contacted by SEOs and I refuse to deal with them. I don’t care about web ranking and I refuse to resort to tricks to raise mine. Since my websites aren’t my source of income, I won’t lower myself to [...]

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scplugin.tigris.org
SCPlugin allows access to Subversion commands from the Finder
(tags: Mac opensource subversion utility)

Vancouver leads Canadian cities in world survey
Not only do Vancouverites live in the world’s third-best urban centre, but they also enjoy the highest overall quality of life in Canada.
(tags: vancouver)

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Since Scoble asked and everyone posted their list of favorite apps, here’s my list:
QuickSilver (which I can’t live without), TextExpander, Adium, iGTD, iTerm, Firefox, TextMate, Yojimbo, Parallels, NetNewsWire, MarsEdit, Default Folder X, Growl, ChronoSync, Fetch, Google Notifier, Graphic Converter, Stuffit Deluxe, Twitterific, VLC, Delicious Library.

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